Raising Arizona and Intolerable Cruelty are two very underrated Coen Brothers films. I like just about every one of their movies. Who would think that the people who made Fargo could ever make No Country For Old Men? Such diversity! True Grit is one of the few re-makes where I can say it is as good or perhaps better than the original. After saying all of that and then finding out they can be intelligent when speaking about a controversial subject, it makes me like them that much more...
Raising Arizona was the first Cohen Brothers film that I saw; I was in junior high and saw it in a theater. I loved that film and that started my enjoyment of Cohen Brothers films.
“Raising Arizona” was hysterical, but in a dry humor way. It took tremendous restraint to get it exactly right as it was.